· May, 2013

Stories about Timor-Leste from May, 2013

Drug Trafficking on the Rise in Timor Leste

  9 May 2013

The East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin features the worsening drug trafficking problem in Timor Leste. It quoted a government report which recognized that the country is being used as a “transit zone for criminals smuggling drugs into both Indonesia and Australia.”

Timor Leste's Bid to Join ASEAN

  9 May 2013

Julio Gil da Silva Guterres writes about Timor Leste's application to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN. He warns that “ASEAN without Timor Leste is the same as a state without sovereignty.”